that is less than 1% of elected republicans in the house. in the senate, there are 45 republicans, precisely one of them is on record as pro equal rights for gay people. and that's brand-new for him. that's rob portman who just came out with that position two weeks ago, after saying that his son is gay. so one senator out of 45 and two representatives out of more than 200. that's not a split in the party, that's like a sliver of the party. that's maybe even a splinter of the party, among elected officials. but as with other social issues in republican politics right now, republicans are sort of getting to the point where they don't want to change their policy position on these matters, they just don't want to be known for what their policy position is on this matter. they just want people to stop noticing it. so even though the party platform for last year's election and the republican party chairman, reince priebus, and the speaker of the house, john boehner, and the supposedly modern new republicans like marco rubio, are all on the record